Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Sandringham
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by gamekeeper Perry at Sandringham. Recorded in 1883 in which year it received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. Introduced by Veitch. Fruits have soft, coarse, mealy flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Sandringham United Kingdom, by 1883
- Parent Woodford United Kingdom, by about 1900
- Parent Reine des Reinettes United Kingdom, by 1800
- Parent Reinette de Hollande
Offspring in the atlas
- Eynsham Dumpling × Blenheim Orange; United Kingdom, by 1960
Sources
- Sandringham (accession 2000 - 087), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its parents, Woodford and King of the Pippins, found from SNP data (supplementary table S3); its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
